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Having completed a searching and fearless moral inventory, I have ascertained that I am 37% evil.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Had the people running Idaho wanted to, they'd have found a way to put a stop to this. It's not merely that the people of Idaho voted for this, it's that the people running them wanted it.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
A gift link to Anne Applebuam’s newest article in The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, “Woo the muse of the odd.” You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be one geek they'll never forget. Don't aim to be civilized. Don’t hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird, and don't do it halfway. Put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Don't become a well-rounded person. Well-rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a pufferfish.
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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
"This is a corrupt administration, and people are tired of being taken advantage of." trib.al/ONg7h9q
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Transcript: MAGA Radio Host Leaks GOP Poll Bombshell in Blow to Trump
As an Iowa-based pro-Trump personality divulges brutal midterm poll data, the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party discusses whether Democrats are about to regain major ground in rural America.
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Peter Ravn Rasmussen @peterravn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A thread worth reading.
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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“Once you have the courts you can pretty much do whatever you want.” - Philosopher Jason Stanley of Yale University, author of How Fascism Works, in 2022.
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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
John D MacDonald, One Dreadful Yellow Eye, 1966.
The wind began to search out my tropic bone marrow, and I could smell a sourness in the wind. I remembered that it blew across a dying lake. For a hundred years the cities had dumped their wastes and corruptions and acids into it, and now suddenly everyone was aghast that it should have the impertinence to start dying like Lake Erie. The ecology was broken, the renewing forces at last overwhelmed. Now the politicians were making the brave sounds the worried people wanted to hear.

  Now they were taking half-measures. Scientists said that only with total effort might the process be slowed, halted, reversed. But total effort, of course, would raise havoc with the supposedly God-given right of the thousand lakeshore corporations to keep costs down by running their poisons into the lake. Total effort would boost the tax structure to pay for effective sewage disposal systems.

  So in the night wind, the lake stank, and I went back in out of the wind, and thought of the endless garbage barges that are trundled out of Miami into the blue bright Atlantic. People had thought the lake would last forever. When the sea begins to stink, man better have some fresh green planets to colonize, because this one is going to be used up.
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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Based on Paul Verhoeven's Nazi Starship Troopers unis. It's amazing to me that Trump hasn't grown the Hitler stache.
Photographs of the new United States space force service dress uniform. It is Nazi in every detail.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) on X
👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/08/2026
Raccoons are flourishing in human settlements more and more—and researchers are finding that they may be on the path to domestication, @annielowrey.bsky.social reports. She explores the myth and science of the country’s favorite floofy, fluffy cuddle-badgers:
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Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets?
The myth and science of the country’s favorite floofy, fluffy cuddle-badgers
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
youtu.be/dLECCmKnrys?... Very funny.
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Gary Gulman On How The States Got Their Abbreviations | CONAN on TBS
YouTube video by Team Coco
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The DSA Is a Parasite
The left-wing faction is hijacking the Democratic Party.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...
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In Maine, Troy Jackson Gains Momentum in Bid to Replace Platner (Gift Article)
Troy Jackson, a progressive former State Senate president, showed signs of significant strength, as half the state’s counties picked delegates to a convention where they will choose Graham Platner’s r...
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Article is free to read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms (Gift Article)
Here’s how President Trump is using the powers of his office to try to reshape the rules governing the midterms and future elections.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w... Article is free to read.
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Early Research Suggests a Path to Predict and Prevent Lung Cancer
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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Michael Jaehnig @mikejaehnig.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
May I suggest this as the strategy for when the Democrats retake government if Trump intends to preemptively pardon all his goons for their criminal conduct. We are just deporting Stephen Miller to a safe third country (cannibal island).
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u... Gift article. Free to read.
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Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry of E. Jean Carroll Over Trump Lawsuits
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/05/2026
The core of Trumpism is white, male victimization. His ascension represents vengeance for his voters, who are victims of illusory crimes by non-MAGA perpetrators. trib.al/cidu7np But most Americans aren’t bought into those Trumpist fictions—and it's already a huge problem for Republicans.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“.. We spotted nine Polymarket accounts .. who made collectively $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. Military operations. .. “.. Now, here is the crazy part. 98% win rates.” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/media/news/6...
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u... Gift article.
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Cassidy Loses His Primary in Louisiana, as Trump Vanquishes Another G.O.P. Foe
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o... Gift article.
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Opinion | The Damage of ‘Trump Math’ Is Adding Up
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Here’s Annie Applebuam’s take on the election. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/illiberalism-not-inevitable/686778/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zGZWNnv_GNl0aEKelDSPq0
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Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/01/2026
Grok being used to create sexually violent videos featuring women, research finds
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Grok being used to create sexually violent videos featuring women, research finds
AI tool also used to undress image of woman killed by ICE agent in US, says research Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok has been used to create sexually violent and explicit video content featuring women, according to new research, as the British prime minister added to condemnation of images it has created. Grok has also been used to undress an image of Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the US on Wednesday, and to portray her with a bullet wound in her forehead. Continue reading...
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
As daft as he is, this sad thing realized he had become a global laughing stock when he extorted FIFA for a make-believe peace prize. Now he’s trying something even more pathetic…extorting Machado for a hand-me-down Nobel prize.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I met this teenage girl, Alice, in Uganda, shortly after she had been forced by her father to marry an older man because the US aid cuts had impoverished her family and the area. Here's a gift link to the column: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o... I hope you'll read and spread the word.
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Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The level of trolling in this tweet is very satisfying.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Can't believe historians wasted eight fucking years debating whether or not we can call this fascism.
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radicalcontrarian.bsky.social @radicalcontrarian.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...
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I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 30/05/2025
the first sentence of Elon's obituary should be that he was one of the greatest mass murderers in the history of humanity this is his legacy
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Peter Manseau @petermanseau.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Star Wars Intro Scroll

Episode IV
It Was All So Stupid

Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.
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